Combat First Aid-Law Enforcement

140 19th Street Northwest,East Wenatchee WA 98802

14 January, 2022

Description

Combat First Aid has had the honor and privilege of training over 7,000 Law Enforcement Officers and over 1,000 Fire/EMS Providers COMBAT FIRST AID is designed specifically for Law Enforcement and is pertinent to both Patrol Officers and SWAT members. SWAT teams by design have safety in numbers, the element of surprise, level III body armor and trained medical personnel attached to the team when deployed to a crisis site. Patrol officers are often dispatched alone to calls for service or on- view crimes of violence without the benefit of enhanced body armor, medical assistance, and immediate back up. The transition time from a traumatic incident to a “safe scene,” (where EMS can safely operate) is critical to whether necessary lifesaving treatment can be administered. This gap in time is often the deciding factor whether an injured person lives or dies. Proper trauma care administered by a Law Enforcement Officer has proven to save lives and offers a mitigation strategy to a problem that has historically been unaddressed. More importantly, it allows the officer to stay in the fight, perform life saving self-treatment, if necessary, instead of laying helplessly, bleeding out, waiting for someone to provide medical care. The COMBAT FIRST AID class teaches the Patrol Officer to administer lifesaving treatment to themselves, a fellow officer or a citizen that has sustained a life-threatening injury The class covers the three preventable causes of combat death and the treatment for all three. The training provided by COMBAT FIRST AID is developed from Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) – the most updated curriculum. The TCCC class is specific to trained medical providers, but we have adapted the training, so it is relevant to the Patrol Officer/SWAT Operator and non-medical first responders. All our hands on scenario training exercises emphasize performing lifesaving skills under stress. Each exercise is based upon real life historical events that police officers have encountered some of which, were captured on body camera. Jenn Foreman OWNER, INSTRUCTOR Jenn has been in the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) since 1994. She has held First Responder and Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) certifications, and since 2002 is a Washington State and nationally certified Paramedic. She is a Washington State Basic Life Support (BLS) evaluator, Advance Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) instructor, Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) instructor, Bleeding Control (BCON) Instructor and Combat First Aid Instructor. During her EMS career, Jenn held positions as shift supervisor, Command Staff Medic and Advance Life Support Training Coordinator. She is also a member of the Special Operations Medical Association, Washington State Tactical Officers Association and The National Tactical Officer’s Association. Jenn served on the Chelan County Regional SWAT Team from 2004-2016 as a Commissioned Tactical Medic. She received her tactical medical training at the International School of Tactical Medicine. Jenn was voted and honored as Operator of the Year in 2009 by the members of the Chelan County Regional SWAT Team. In 2016 she was awarded a scholarship to the National Tactical Officer’s Association Conference, one of 15 in the nation. Jenn is the owner and Lead Instructor of Combat First Aid which was created in 2010 after a local law enforcement agency asked her to develop and teach a curriculum to patrol officers on how to administer self-care and partner care if critically injured. Having already developed and taught a similar curriculum to her SWAT team members, Jenn was eager to take on the challenge. Drawing on the principles from the military’s Tactical Combat Casualty Care protocols Jenn was able to create efficient, effective, usable and teachable field care concepts. As a result, Combat First Aid was born. Jenn teaches law enforcement officers how to administer lifesaving treatment to themselves, a fellow officer or a citizen who has sustained a life threatening injury. The three preventable causes of combat death as well as the treatment for each are covered extensively throughout the course. Jenn has taken the TCCC curriculum, which is evidence based medicine and specific to the military, and has adapted the training so it is relevant to the officer/SWAT/UC operator and non-medical first responders. The concept of COMBAT FIRST and then AID is reinforced throughout the course of instruction. Jenn has had the honor of instructing and consulting: Government Agencies, Safety Officers, Private Security, Corporate Security, Health Care Professionals, Administrators First Responders, Volunteers Organizations, Search and Rescue, Rescue Task Force, Emergency Managers, Fire Fighters, Law Enforcement Agencies, Health Care Facilities, Teachers, Professors, Colleges, Churches and Private Corporations. Combat First Aid has gained popularity over the last several years, mostly by word of mouth. Jenn and her medical and law enforcement instructors have trained over 5,000 Officers and First Responders from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, California and Canada. To date we have confirmed that graduates of Combat First Aid have used the training that they received in the class to save lives in the field. These have included both civilian and suspect casualties with injuries ranging from severe accidental extremity wounds to officer delivered rifle fire and penetrating trauma.